Economics
Prem Sikka: Why we should resist the rush to a cashless society
Accounting expert Prem Sikka warns of a new social divide Read here
Inequality
Climate Crisis
Noam Chomsky – Internationalism or Extinction
Capital is coordinated and globalized. Our struggles against injustice and oppression must be the same. Cross-posted from Open Democracy In his new book, Noam Chomsky traces the duality of existential threats from nuclear weapons and […]
Climate Crisis
Thomas Piketty – “The Current Economic System is Not Working when it comes to Solving Inequality”
Following a recent event at LSE, Thomas Piketty took questions from LSE staff, students and members of the public on inequality and his latest book, Capital and Ideology. Thomas Piketty is Professor at EHESS and at […]
Economics
Ndongo Samba Sylla, Peter Doyle – Abolish Africa’s Sovereign Debtors’ Prisons Now
In a radical call for reform of the IMF’s pro-creditor and anti-growth approach to indebted countries in Africa, Ndongo Sylla and Peter Doyle argue that the continent has a choice to make. Creditors, using the […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – Historical Wealth: How to Compare Croesus and Bezos
Wealth has to be measured with a yardstick belonging to the same time when that wealth exists: labour power Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – What is wealth?
What are the elements of wealth and how do you give them a value? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System […]
Economics
Renegade Inc – Andrew Ross: You are not a loan
It was the German philosopher and economist Karl Marx who said that “There must be something rotten at the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery.” Today there […]
Economics
Mario J. Rizzo, Mark Blyth – Escaping Paternalism
Talk by Mario J. Rizzo, Associate Professor of Economics, Director of the Foundations of the Market Economy Program at New York University. Good Introduction by Mark Blyth.
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot – The Unholy Trinity of Ideologies Trashing our Planet
Is another form of capitalism possible? And can new social movements like Extinction Rebellion escape the ideologies that pervade our lives? George Monbiot is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism Cross-posted […]
Austerity
Jule Goikoetxea – Spain: The Coalition Government, TINA, and the Wolf
From certain sectors of the left, the coalition agreement has been presented as the only alternative to fascism, breathing life into everything that it had previously criticized so much: the neoliberal regime of 1978. Jule […]